Database Van Broekhoven » Alfred Joseph Louis Kunzel (1918-1976)

Day of marriage December 31, 1940

• The temperature on December 31, 1940 was between -2.0 °C and 2.4 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
• In the year 1940: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 8.8 million citizens.
  • January 8 » World War II: Britain introduces food rationing.
  • February 29 » In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
  • April 9 » World War II: Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway.
  • October 14 » World War II: The Balham underground station disaster kills sixty-six people during the London Blitz.
  • November 18 » World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous Italian invasion of Greece.
  • November 27 » In Romania, the ruling Iron Guard fascist party assassinates over 60 of arrested King Carol II of Romania's aides and other political dissidents.

Day of death July 31, 1976

• The temperature on July 31, 1976 was between 8.8 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• In the year 1976: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 13.7 million citizens.
  • January 1 » A bomb explodes on board Middle East Airlines Flight 438 over Qaisumah, Saudi Arabia, killing all 81 people on board.
  • January 3 » The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, comes into force.
  • July 4 » Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
  • July 4 » The U.S. celebrates its Bicentennial.
  • September 10 » A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
  • October 6 » Premier Hua Guofeng arrests the Gang of Four, ending the Cultural Revolution in China.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1971 » Walter P. Carter, American soldier and activist (b. 1923)
• 1972 » Paul-Henri Spaak, Belgian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium, 1st President of the United Nations General Assembly (b. 1899)
• 1973 » Azumafuji Kin'ichi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna (b. 1921)
• 1979 » Beatrix Lehmann, English actress and director (b. 1903)
• 1980 » Mohammed Rafi, Indian playback singer (b. 1924)
• 1980 » Pascual Jordan, German physicist, author, and academic (b. 1902)